Chapter 361 (1/2)

Chapter 361: Bun

One would die if they didn't drink water. Ning Que thought about this statement and asked solemnly, ”If you want to eat the crab porridge that you love, you won't be able to drink water. What would you do?”

Chen Pipi waved his hands impatiently and said, ”There would not be a situation like that. Where can you not find water?”

Ning Que asked persistently, ”If the water had legs and could think for itself, and it wouldn't allow you to drink it and would run away when you get close to it. What would you do?”

Chen Pipi was stunned. He thought about the question for a long time before answering helplessly, ”If this was the case, then I'd better drink the water in order to survive, even though life would be a little more bitter.”

Ning Que looked at the ripples of light on the lake's surface and lamented sadly, ”Everyone else could have concubines... Alright, to put it in a better way, everyone else could have many different relations.h.i.+ps, why can't I? Why did the one I have at home learn to be jealous even when she's still a child?”

Chen Pipi looked at the shadow that the Yanming Mountain cast on the lake. He said, ”Don't ask me about things like that. I've never understood women. They're weird”

Ning Que glanced at him.

Chen Pipi shook his head and said, ”Do not think that you can get any help from the Senior Brothers and Sisters. There's no one experienced in matters like this in the back of the mountain. They're all geniuses and idiots.”

Ning Que lamented, ”I had thought that happiness was the most important thing in life, but I did not expect that she was so unhappy. It has already been ten years, and I have never once won over her at anything. Why's that so? Those in the world are all very good, and I like them very much. But she doesn't like them, and it seems that there's nothing that I can do. Is this fate?”

Chen Pipi comforted him, ”Then you have to learn to accept fate.”

”I don't think this counts as comforting me.”

Ning Que said, ”Right, why did Senior Brother want to take me back to the Academy?”

Chen Pipi said, ”Everyone wants to know if you want to choose Shanshan or Sangsang. But it seems that we don't have to ask. I approve of your choice.”

Ning Que asked with a strange expression, ”Why?”

Chen Pipi looked at him and said, ”Because I know you would choose her.”

Ning Que was silent for a long while.

Chen Pipi frowned and rubbed his face. He asked concernedly, ”How will you settle this?”

After a moment of silence, Ning Que said, ”When Sangsang was little, she did not want to wash

her clothes. I taught her something then, that you have to deal with your own things. Since this issue belongs to me, I have to settle it myself. And it must not drag on.”

Chen Pipi said worriedly, ”Aren't you worried you might hurt her?”

Ning Que said with a smile, ”Aren't I a fickle and heartless person?”

Chen Pipi looked at him and said solemnly, ”Your smile is fake and cheerless.”

Ning Que smiled gloomily, not knowing what to say.

Chen Pipi said with emotion, ”The matters between men and women are really the most troublesome things in the world. It looks like I've really got to thank Ye Hongyu, for I do not have any thoughts about women thanks to her. As such, I do not have to experience the distress that you have.”

The two pa.s.sed around the lake and left Yanming Mountain and returned to the noisy streets. The morning sun was high up by then, and the citizens of Chang'an have roused and were queuing up by the stalls.

There were two monks standing beside a shop selling buns. One of them was a skinny martial monk. His hands that hung outside his robes looked like steel. The other monk was middle-aged and slightly tanned. He looked as if he had had a hard life.

The two monks were silently chewing on the snow white buns in their hands. There were two bowls of clear water on the stones at their feet. Their robes were old and their expression indifferent, forming a sharp contrast with the lively city around them.

”It's rare to see sadhus in Chang'an.”

Chen Pipi frowned as he looked at the two monks from afar. ”Especially sadhus as strong as they are.”

Ning Que looked at the two monks who chewed on their buns with their heads down. He lamented, ”Everyone who has been born would experience suffering. I thought that I had suffered enough, and to think that there are people out there who are suffering more than me. They don't even have fermented beancurd to eat with their buns. They're really sadhus who have renounced the worldly life.”

Chang'an City was the largest city in the world. There were many odd people coming and going every day. Even though sadhus rarely appear, the two did not think much about it and walked past them.

When they pa.s.sed the two monks, Ning Que glanced at the middle-aged monk.

The monk raised his head to look at Ning Que at the same time.

Ning Que stopped.

The middle-aged monk's gaze at Ning Que was quiet and strong, as if he had been quietly scented by incense for thousands of years before a Buddha statue, and was without any impurities.

The aura of the middle-aged monk was also extremely quiet and strong. Although he was standing in the crowded city and had half a white bun in his hands, it looked like he was standing in a Buddhist country with blooming lotuses, holding a green branch with dew on it.

Chen Pipi stopped with Ning Que. He furrowed his brows silently and looked at the middle-aged monk. He suddenly said, ”A world devoid of ugliness, and becoming Buddha... are you from the White Tower?”

The middle-aged monk placed his palms together and said, ”I am Dao s.h.i.+ of the White Tower Temple. Greetings, Mr. Twelve and Mr. Thirteen of the Academy.”

Dao s.h.i.+ was a little-known sadhu.

Chen Pipi had never heard of his name. Most cultivators have never heard of him. That was because Daos.h.i.+ had been practicing penance in the countryside since he left the White Tower.

But a cultivators fame was not directly related to his powers.

Chen Pipi looked at the sadhu who stood in the mortal world, but exuded a G.o.dly image and knew that the monk's state was very high.

Chen Pipi glanced at Ning Que.

Ning Que looked at the middle-aged sadhu and suddenly asked, ”Did you come to look for me?”

Dao s.h.i.+ said calmly, ”Please, teach me something, Mr. Thirteen.”